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In honor of Merry Chrismukahwaanzah win a $100 gift certificate to ART.COMto

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Congrats to Amanda who won $100 to art.com care of Random.org
Yep that’s right– tis the season for giving- it’s December and that means it’s Chrismukahwaanzah. And so, in honor of all the gift giving, I am giving away a $100 GIFT CERTIFICATE to one of my FAVORITE SITES; ART.COM

Just one of many brilliant pieces of art you can get at art.com
So how can you get your hands on this cool $100- you can become a fan of the Married My Sugar Daddy Facebook Page, You can follow me at MADIJACK on Twitter and of course you can leave an entry here about the best or worst gift you’ve ever received during the holiday season.

I’ll go first- when I was seven my aunt gave me a BAR OF SOAP for Chanukah.. yep a BAR OF SOAP. Your turn!

Contest is open until Sunday, December 26th- GOOD LUCK!!

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  3. I became a fan of the Married My Sugar Daddy Facebook Page,

    The greatest gift I ever received during the holidays was a large black bear. I was thrilled, I loved and slept with that bear throughout my childhood. I was seven and named him "Happiness"….I know, I was a weird kid. 🙂 Thank you.

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  4. My grandmother (God bless her heart) once gave me an 8 foot inflatable snowman for Christmas. It's true, I love snowmen, but at the time I was in college and lived in an apartment that was the size of a dining room table.

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  9. I've gotten a lot of nice gifts – but the worst I've gotten? Last year my grandmother gave me a (literally) 2 foot by 3 foot music box that played only christmas music and lit up a plastic tree. The box said that it was called "Mr. Christmas," but once she left I called it, "Mr. Trashcan"

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  12. Follow you on twitter. jenndiggy My worst gift was a skirt someone made for me but it was soooooo big. I couldn't even stretch it completely out when extending my arm as far away as I could. I would have litterly had to be about six feet around for that thing to have fit!

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  13. The worst was a TV-Sitcom bad sweater from an Aunt and to make it worse she was there while I was opening it.

    The best, coming home early from deployment.

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  14. My grandmother gave me a tacky locket, that was given to her by a daughter-in-law who made no secret about not liking Grandma, who had received it from one of her first grade students.

    I know this because Grandma told me, and she had been told by the DIL where she had gotten it. Lovely.

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  15. The worst Christmas gift was when I was about 14–neon pink butterflies, made from wire frames & painted nylon mesh. I also received a boombox that had such bad radio reception & so much feedback to the speakers that it pretty much didn't work. It was one of those teenage angst Christmases when I returned everything I got–wonder how old my kids will be when I'm the gift-buying mom for the worst Christmas ever!

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  17. My ex-mother-in-law once gave me an air pot with coffee in the bottom. I didn't mind that it was used, but I did mind that she didn't wash it.

    smchester at gmail dot com

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  18. When I was a kid, my Grandma Gibbons gave me a metal toy Hess truck. Yes, Hess – as in, the gas station. I think I cut myself on the jagged edges. I think it was manufactured by the Marquis de Sade Child-Free Toy Company.

    Grandma Gibbons also had the worst taste in clothes. I can't provide details – my therapist and I are still working to recover those memories. But my mom says that, when she was a kid, Grandma wrapped up a pair of old adult pajamas and gave them to my mom for Xmas. So, hey, at least I know it wasn't personal.

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  19. I follow you on twitter @Aerated. I am not close to my mother at all; I was raised mostly by my father. However I was still shocked when she gave me a paper doll set AND several expansion packs for Christmas. I was 23. My boyfriend was there. All I could say was "You shouldn't have".

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  20. Worst gift ever: a box full of used Harlequin romance novels from a relative. Oh, did I mention that I was 12 at the time? I had no idea what they were, but I still knew enough to be vaguely creeped out.

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  24. Two years ago, when my husband was leaving on deployment right after Christmas, he gave me the most beautiful Champagne and white diamond journey necklace and told me our journey had just begun. It was the best present I ever received. Thank you for the wonderful giveaway!

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  25. The best gift I've ever received for Christmas was a typewriter. I had wanted one all year and knew it would help with my school reports and papers. It served it's purpose for many years before my toddler eventually broke it.

    diamond42377{at}gmail{dot}com

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  28. I'm a fan of yours on facebook (Geoff K) and I'm following you on twitter (@guettel78). Hands down the best gift I ever got for the holidays was a brand new Honda CR-V from my family a few years ago – and the worst was actually the same year when my great aunt gave me an Omaha Steaks gift card (I'm a vegetarian). 🙂 Thanks!

    gkaufmanss(at)yahoo(dot)com

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  29. Our two dogs had puppies and we weren't planning on keeping one. I got really close to one of them and my boyfriend surprised me on Christmas when he said i could keep him. It's been six years and Bear is still my baby and my favorite Christmas gift ever 🙂

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  30. The best gift I ever received was my dog, who has provided me with 9 years of unconditional love and joy. Thanks so much for the chance to win this, I would love to purchase some prints of my favorite paintings!

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  32. I also follow @madijack on Twitter (@amandapersists)

    I'm not sure if I was supposed to leave separate comments / entries – please delete if I messed it up!

    Thanks again!

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  33. I got a scale as a gift! Do you think it was a hint that I should drop a few pounds? LOL!

    nancymeyer1 at gmail dot com

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  35. The BEST and favorite gift had to be the year we got Donkey Kong 2 on Super Nintendo! It really bonded me and my brother playing video games together. We also invited friends over it was just a great time!

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  43. I am a Facebook Fan (Jesselyn A) of Married My Sugar Daddy (I married my childhood sweetheart – years after we became grown-ups and re-discovered each other – that was my best holiday present ever!)

    The worst? Before I rediscovered my first love – I was briefly engaged to a guy who was always very romantic when it came to dating (nice and thoughtful restaurants, shows, etc.) but when it came to our first Christmas/holiday season, first he showed up with like 15 boxes – and every single one of them was packed with these really ugly, flimsy, cheap

    towels. After opening all of the boxes I felt ridiculous surrounded by prison grade towels and he seemed honestly puzzled by my impossible to hide "disappointment."

    THEN after my family welcomed him to out holiday dinner he insulted my step-father who is of Russian Jewish decent by saying that his Lithuanian Grandmother preferred the Nazi's (occupation) to the Russians because at least the Nazi's were Christians (not Jews)…!!!!

    The stunned silence and dropped jaws is a memory that will never leave me….

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  44. got my worst gift this year while visiting the mil. she walks is says 'merry christmas' and throws a santa-themed dish towel in my lap. hubby is all ' oh that's so pretty" and stuff. still haven't told him that he picked it out for her last year….

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  45. The worst christmas present I ever received was from my biological father who I haven't talked to in a very long time and it was a picture of him and my mom on their wedding day. Considering he made my mom very unhappy I don't think a picture of them on their wedding day was a very good gift.

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  48. My MIL gave us a piece of drift wood with a fake/dead looking cardinal on it. It was also decorated with fake flowers and tiny plastic eggs. It went in the closet and only came out she was visiting. Tragically, it was lost in one of our Navy moves 😉

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  52. I enjoyed reading about everyone's horrible gifts here! My personal worst: when I was in my early teens, my grandma begrudginly invited my family over for Christmas. It's a long story, but she's not too fond of us — and it definitely shows in her gifts. Every year, she would give my parents a previously-opened tin of popcorn, and my brother and I would get junk (or nothing at all). That particular year, she handed me two decently-sized boxes. I opened the first to discover a polar fleece bath robe. It went past my ankles, had a tall collar, and the whole thing zipped up the front. It looked like a fleece jacket had mated with a Snuggie. The second box had a pair of tan slippers in it, which looked like baked potatoes with zippers (my mom STILL makes the occasional joke about my "potato shoes"). To top it all off, when I tried everything on, my grandpa turned to my grandma and whispered loud enough for me to hear, "See, I told you, Elsie! She's not THAT big!"

    glycinemax at gmail dot com

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  53. I've always been pretty lucky – oh sure there has been an ugly sweater or two but not as many as you would think. However, my mother got a pair of used underwear once from an old (apparently senile) aunt.

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  54. When I was a grown woman (with big feet, by the way) my sister gave me a package of little girl socks. I thought maybe it was a joke I didn't get, but she said she noticed while she was in line that she had grabbed from the little girl bin (because they were 9 cents cheaper) but didn't want to go back and get the right ones. So she wrapped them and gave them to me. I lived in a different city that didn't have the store she bought them from, so I couldn't even return them.

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  55. When I was about 14 my 24 year old sister gave me a cookbook 1001 ways too cook meat—-My entire life I have always hated meat –I don't know if it was supposed to be a joke–or she re–gifted or what the following year my brother gave me a Richard Simmons best low calorie desserts cook book–again—what the hell do I look like I need to go on a diet (I was probably 80 lbs).

    kakihararocks@gmail.com

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  75. My husband got me a garden gnomes of the month calendar for christmas five years ago. Just what I always wanted, honey! lol

    I follow you on twitter 🙂

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  77. Follow on Twitter and Facebook.
    Worst gift … my husband gave me an Angora sweater. Well I am allergic. My eyes were itchy and swollen and watery and my nose was itchy and runny all day.

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  78. The one year, when I was about 12, my sisters were 8 and 16, our mother got us all these horrible pajamas with horse heads on them….they were…”different” to say the least!

    I always remember that as the worst gift, other than the shower radio I had off my ex that was supposed to be a dolphin, but looked like a fish and sounded horrendous. I had them take it back lol!

    Thanks!

    Jordan B

    oneadem@gmail.com

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  79. I like you on Facebook (Sarah Smile).

    I follow you on Twitter (mail4rosey).

    Worst gift ever: Hubby got me Borax cleaner last year as a present. I wish I was kidding. He’s made up for it in a million ways but that was sure a dud.

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  80. One of my clients gave me a gift she had gotten from buying some Clinque make up, which would have been fine, but she had opened and used some of it.Yeak!

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  81. Two years ago, my husband picked out on his own a Coach bag and wallet. That's the best gift he has given me. I never would have spent the money to buy it myself but I needed a good purse and wallet. I just thought it was the sweetest thing for him to think of and go shopping on his own for me a purse!

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  82. I became a fan of the Married My Sugar Daddy Facebook Page,

    The worse gift I got was stale candy. Yuck!

    mightynaynay(at)cs.com

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  85. My worst present was 3 satin hangers from my aunt who hates me…I guess she was just paying me back for being in her house on Xmas eve! Ha! At least they weren't metal and she didn't beat me with them!:)

    trixie420247 at yahoo dot com

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  90. My best present ever was when my parents had my baby dress I wore home from the hospital, my baby beaded bracelet and a gold plated diaper pin framed into a shadowbox for me. It's the only gift that ever made me cry when I opened it. Thanks.

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  91. I have never had a horrible gift; the best gift I had was when we went cross county to see relatives we had not seen in over 10 years. Thank you

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  95. When I was about 11 years old, my grandmother gave me what we would call a "pocketbook." Yes, back then, that's what the ladies called them, and my grandmother gave me a doozy! It was literally an old lady style big old one. Big and ugly…not cute and small like an 11 year old girl would want! I'm sure she meant well though.

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  96. My best gift during the holiday season was when I had my first baby a few days after Christmas. She was the 3000th. baby of the year at the hospital so we got to stay in the Princess Suite which was a private room and everything was paid for! Pretty amazing! They took our picture for the newspaper but I looked so puffy and awful they never put it in!

    If I win this is for her and her birthday, 33rd. , is tomorrow and she is an artist and Mom and wife.

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